Mike Griffin
Associate Professor
Philosophy
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Michael Griffin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. He has also been a visitor in the Institute for the Study of Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, and the philosophy departments at the University of Colorado, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Wake Forest University, and the University of Virginia. His current research interests focus on philosophers of the early modern period, especially Leibniz, Descartes, Spinoza and Locke.
Research Interest
Early Modern Philosophy, Kant and German Idealism, Late Antique and Medieval Philosophy, Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion.
Publications
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Griffin MV. Leibniz on God's Knowledge of Counterfactuals. The Philosophical Review. 1999;108(3):317-43.
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Griffin MV. Necessitarianism in Spinoza and Leibniz. In: Huenemann C, editor. Interpreting Spinoza: Critical Essays. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press; 2008. p. 71-93.
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Griffin MV. Leibniz, God and Necessity. Cambridge: Cambridge UP; 2012.
